Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage among patients and healthcare workers in a hospital in Kelantan, Malaysia

Polish Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-112

  Al Talib, Hassanain ^a   Yean, Chan Yean ^b   Hasan, Habsah ^b   Nmn, Nik Zuraina ^b   Ravichandran, Manickam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^c AIMST UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

MRSA; Nasal carriage; Nosocomial infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84875470834     PISSN: 17331331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33073/pjm-2013-016     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Al-Talib H.I., C.Y. Yean, K. Al-Jashamy and H. Hasan. 2010. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nosocomial infection trends in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia during 2002-2007. Ann. Saudi. Med. 30: 358-363.
2. Aldeyab M.A., D.L. Monnet, J.M. Lopez-Lozano, C.M. Hughes, M.G. Scott, M.P. Kearney, F.A. Magee and J.C. McElnay. 2008. Modelling the impact of antibiotic use and infection control practices on the incidence of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a time-series analysis. J. Antimicrob. Chemoth. 62: 593-600.
3. Alghaithy A.A., N.E. Bilal, M. Gedebou and A.H. Weily. 2000. Nasal carriage and antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from hospital and non-hospital personnel in Abha, Saudi Arabia. T. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. H. 94: 504-507.
4. Askarian M., A. Zeinalzadeh, A. Japoni, A. Alborzi and Z.A. Memish. 2009. Prevalence of nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and its antibiotic susceptibility pattern in healthcare workers at Namazi Hospital, Shiraz, Iran. Int. J. Infect. Dis. 13: e241-247.
5. Ben-David D., L.A. Mermel and S. Parenteau. 2008. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission: the possible importance of unrecognized health care worker carriage. Am. J. Infect. Control. 36: 93-97. (Pubitemid 351308054)
6. Blot S.I., K.H. Vandewoude, E.A. Hoste and F.A. Colardyn. 2002. Outcome and attributable mortality in critically Ill patients with bacteremia involving methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Arch. Intern. Med. 162: 2229-2235. (Pubitemid 35231593)
7. Choi C.S., C.S. Yin, A.A. Bakar, Z. Sakewi, N.N. Naing, F. Jamal and N. Othman. 2006. Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus among healthy adults. J. Microbiol. Immunol. Infect. 39: 458-464. (Pubitemid 46374211)
8. Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute in Molecular Diagnostic Methods for Infectious Diseases; Approved Guideline (CLSI MM3-A2) n.
9. Corea E., T. de Silva and J. Perera. 2003. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: prevalence, incidence and risk factors associated with colonization in Sri Lanka. J. Hosp. Infect. 55: 145-148. (Pubitemid 38001969)
10. Erbay H., A.N. Yalcin, S. Serin, H. Turgut, E. Tomatir, B. Cetin and M. Zencir. 2003. Nosocomial infections in intensive care unit in a Turkish university hospital: a 2-year survey. Intens. Care. Med. 29: 1482-1488. (Pubitemid 37153592)
11. Goyal R., S. Das and M. Mathur. 2002. Colonisation of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus among health care workers in a tertiary care hospital of Delhi. Ind. J. Med. Sci. 56: 321-324. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/ rr/rr5116.pdf. (Pubitemid 39663771)
12. Johnson L.B., J. Jose, F. Yousif, J. Pawlak and L.D. Saravolatz. 2009. Prevalence of colonization with community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among end-stage renal disease patients and healthcare workers. Infect. Cont. Hosp. Ep. 30: 4-8.
13. Kaplan S.L. 2005. Implications of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a community-acquired pathogen in pediatric patients. Infect. Dis. Clin. Am. 19: 747-757. (Pubitemid 41133539)
14. Lowy F.D. 1998. Staphylococcus aureus infections. N. Eng. J. Med. 339: 520-532.
15. Marshall C., G. Harrington, R. Wolfe, C.K. Fairley, S. Wesselingh and D. Spelman. 2003. Acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a large intensive care unit. Infect. Cont. Hosp. Ep. 24: 322-326. (Pubitemid 36612316)
16. McDougal L.K., C.D. Steward, G.E. Killgore, J.M. Chaitram, S.K. McAllister and F.C. Tenover. 2003. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing of oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the United States: establishing a national database. J. Clin. Microbiol. 41: 5113-5120. (Pubitemid 37429924)
17. Norazah A., Y.T. Koh, A. Ghani Kamel, R. Alias and V.K. Lim. 2001. Mupirocin resistance among Malaysian isolates of methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus. Int. J. Antimicrob. Ag. 17: 411-414. (Pubitemid 32401540)
18. Oztoprak N., M.A. Cevik, E. Akinci, M. Korkmaz, A. Erbay, S.S. Eren, N. Balaban and H. Bodur. 2006. Risk factors for ICU-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. Am. J. Infect. Control. 34: 1-5. (Pubitemid 43144348)
19. Popovic T., I.K. Mazurova, A. Efstratiou, J. Vuopio-Varkila, M.W. Reeves, A. De Zoysa, T. Glushkevich and P. Grimont. 2000. Molecular epidemiology of diphtheria. J. Infect. Dis. 181 Suppl 1: S168-177. (Pubitemid 30130123)
20. Rohani M.Y., A. Raudzah, M.G. Lau, A.A. Zaidatul, M.N. Salbiah, K.C. Keah, A. Noraini and T. Zainuldin. 2000. Susceptibility pattern of Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Malaysian hospitals. Int. J. Antimicrob. Ag. 13: 209-213.
21. Santhosh DV S.K., I. Bairy, R. Gowrish and J. D'Souza. 2008. Phenotypic Detection and Rate of Nasal Carriage of Heterotypic Borderline Oxacillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Pre-clinical Medical Students from Malaysia. J. Clin. Diag. Res. 2: 985-990.
22. Schaefer A.M., K.M. McMullen, J.L. Mayfield, A. Richmond, D.K. Warren and E.R. Dubberke. 2009. Risk factors associated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization on hospital admission among oncology patients. Am. J. Infect. Control. 37: 603-605.
23. Solberg C.O. 2000. Spread of Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals: causes and prevention. Scand. J. Infect. Dis. 32: 587-595. (Pubitemid 32042322)
24. Tenover F.C., R.D. Arbeit, R.V. Goering, P.A. Mickelsen, B.E. Murray, D.H. Persing and B. Swaminathan. 1995. Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33: 2233-2239.
25. Wang F.D., Y.Y. Chen, T.L. Chen and C.Y. Liu. 2008. Risk factors and mortality in patients with nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Am. J. Infect. Control. 36: 118-122.